FarmerTy

I ran mine sideways as well.

Status check: Tub of fish - check, everybody still healthy and happy. I'm sure the nitrates are at 80 ppm and the phosphates are at 0.2 ppm but everyone is happy enough for me to not change the water and continue my lazy ways. Frag tank - check, everything is finally starting to look happy again after I've wrestled control of the up/down swings of the phosphate level with that stupid phosphate bound rock I used like an idiot. Either way, I will be replacing the rock with some newly cycled rock I have been cooking since last Friday. I'll give it another week and then I'll make the swap. Then I'll hit the phosphate saturated rock with some lanthanum chloride for as long as needed to remove all the phosphate and repurpose it for something else. Display tank - same ole same ole. Still haven't gotten around to installing the UV sterilizer. I still haven't glued up all the colonies to empty the sandbed. Still haven't gone dark with the sump to kill off all the wayward algae growing down in there. I dosed potassium nitrate the other day to 4 ppm since my nitrates have been at zero for the last 3 weeks and it's starting to cause my SPS colors to fade. 4 ppm seems to last me about 3 days until it gets back down to zero again. I'll just keep dosing it up for another 4 weeks until my fish can go back in the tank and take back over their nitrate causing ways.

It's one of Shane's that Niko had left over! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Nice score! I was over there a little while ago and mentioned you were looking for one and he said you guys had been talking. Glad he gave one up!

Just trying to throw me off the trail. I'm on to you.

Who's tub is that? You buy one?

Great shots of the tank! All the corals look happy!

Hard to tell but I thought I saw some white spots on the wrasse. Looks more like ich than velvet to me. Ich can kill your fish but at the rate yours are dying, I'd only assume bacterial or marine velvet was involved. Any fish left in the tank?

Alright, you buy lunch if it's a clove polyp. Waderaid, we'll need confirmation in a couple weeks when that thing is happy again. [emoji12]

Put some money on it Brian? [emoji48]

What happened to creeping? [emoji14]

Playing basketball is my other main distraction. I play about 3x/week these days when the body allows it. I may be picking up golf soon as I know the body won't hold out forever with basketball.

If you cycled the tank with the corals in it, then they are probably pretty ticked from the ammonia/nitrite levels in the tank during that time. I see at least one button polyp open so it looks happy enough to survive is my guess. The thing on the glass looks like a clove polyp that has attached. But I'm just taking a swing for tthe fences as it's a really grainy picture.

So on Friday, will you be in love? [emoji4] (obscure Cure reference) Rock looks good man. You're still crazy but it's fun watching from afar.

Only negative feedback I heard was if you order one of the longer bulbs, it's real flimsy and almost pops out of place. I think they may have bolstered it since then after getting reports of this happening.

That is more applicable on freshwater ich than saltwater ich.

Careful what you ask for... You may be laid up in the ER with palytoxin one day.

The first 6 years I was a young, single guy enjoying the traveling. I got sent to all kinds of fun locations, San Diego, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Washington DC, Little Rock, Reno, Denver, etc. It was like an all expense-paid vacation where I worked during the day and then had steak, lobsters, seafood, and drinks on the company at night. The bonus airline mileage, hotel points, and rental car points were a boon because it gave me access to travel to other destinations for free on my own time. The last 3 years of consulting I was miserable because I was leaving my wife by herself everytime I left and all I longed for was to be home, in my pajamas, hanging out with my wife, and staring at my reef tank. That's when I made the change to real estate and never looked back. I get to spend plenty of time with the wife, I have a career that I enjoy, and my reef tank looks fantastic! Oh yeah, and I make more money these days than when I was consulting too... cherry on top!

They bumped it up to 95% and I said I was out... not really but it didn't matter as I think my average was about 110%. Hurry up and start that coral farm so you can stop traveling. It got old for me by the 6th year and I didn't find an exit strategy until my 9th year.

You cannot. You will have to remove the fish and treat. Continue with water changes as well to improve water quality in the tank.

That's awesome. I'm sure ARC as a collective took a sigh of relief when you said it was plastic. [emoji12]

GBR bleaching not as severe as reported. Thanks media. https://reefbuilders.com/2016/06/06/coral-bleaching-on-the-gbr-not-as-severe-as-first-reported/

If all those fish died that quickly, I'd almost suspect marine velvet as well. Did you notice the fish swimming in front of powerheads at night? A light dusting of what looks like sugar in the skin?

Keep trying to take a better picture but for now, I'm guessing maybe a bacterial infection. And that's a wild guess at that as its hard to tell from the picture.

You're welcome sir. You're talking with an equally lazy reefer here. [emoji4]

I wasn't smart enough to answer your original question, so I made up my own and answered it in this thread. So...how did the test go? I believe it prevent the tipping because the force will be redirected from the magnetic connection to the joints connecting the magnet to the crate. The question is, can you make the joint strong enough for long-term use?It works. I've made one before so I wasn't worried about the joint holding. I was just looking for optimal placement of the connection joint to minimize the leveraged force on the magnet. My initial guess was correct and I appreciate everyone who contributed to my physics question of the day. Haha.